Ralph Erskine Quotes

#1. If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

Jamaica Kincaid

#2. For us to be together, we needed to decide which secrets to share and then let the others go.

Deborah Harkness

#3. But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Michael Hutchence

#4. We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

Michael Pollan

#5. When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Alec Baldwin

#6. Childhood
even a sad childhood
eventually becomes a place we think we've dreamed or stumbled across and want to find again, but never can.

Rachel Klein

#7. Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#8. There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing.

Anne Corlett

#9. But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.

David Cronenberg

#10. Magic is the recognition of the fire burning behind us when all else see only their own shadow on the wall.

Margaret Weis

#11. Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Evelyn Glennie

#12. If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Pink

#13. The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

John Lewis

#14. I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.

Brendan Dooling

#15. Take chance standout. You can only have your head above waters if you stick your neck out a bit. It's time to take off ... Dare to rise!

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